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BEUDANT, FRANCOIS SULPICE (1787—1850)

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BEUDANT, See also:FRANCOIS SULPICE (1787—1850) , See also:French mineralogist and geologist, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 5th of See also:September 1787. He was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Normale, and in 1811 was appointed See also:professor of See also:mathematics at the lycee of See also:Avignon. Thence he was called, in 1813, to the lycee of See also:Marseilles to fill the See also:post of professor of physics. In the following See also:year the royal mineralogical See also:cabinet was committed to his See also:charge to be conveyed into See also:England, and from that See also:time his See also:attention was directed principally towards See also:geology and cognate sciences. In 1817 he published a See also:paper on the phenomena of See also:crystallization, treating especially of the variety of forms assumed by the same See also:mineral substance. In 1818 he undertook, at the expense of the French See also:government, a See also:geological See also:journey through See also:Hungary, and the results of his researches, Voyage mineralogique et geologique en Hongrie, 3 vols. 4t0, with See also:atlas, published in 1822, established for him a See also:European reputation. In 182o he was appointed to the professorship of See also:mineralogy in the Paris See also:faculty of sciences, and afterwards became inspector-See also:general of the university. He subsequently published See also:treatises on physics and on mineralogy and geology, and died on the loth of See also:December 185o.

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